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Some of the worst-performing elementary schools in California retrained teachers to teach reading with phonics. A new paper says the change worked.
It was last updated for the 2012–2013 school year, and on March 15, 2017, the California State Board of Education and the California Department of Education launched a new accountability system to replace the Academic Performance Index to better measure California's education goals. [1]
The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), known until February 2014 as the Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress (MAPP), measures the performance of students undergoing primary and secondary education in California. In October 2013, it replaced the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program.
Value-added modeling (also known as value-added measurement, value-added analysis and value-added assessment) is a method of teacher evaluation that measures the teacher's contribution in a given year by comparing the current test scores of their students to the scores of those same students in previous school years, as well as to the scores of other students in the same grade.
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing recently unveiled its new “Roadmap to Teaching ‘‘ initiative, a project funded by $1.4 million in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2022-23 budget to ...
In 1920, the California State Legislature's Special Legislative Committee on Education conducted a comprehensive investigation of California's educational system. The Committee's final report, drafted by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, explained that the system's chaotic ad hoc development had resulted in the division of jurisdiction over education at the state level between 23 separate boards ...
(2) reforming teacher and principal compensation systems so that teachers and principals are rewarded for increases in student achievement (3) increasing the number of effective teachers teaching poor, minority, and disadvantaged students in hard-to-staff subjects (4) creating sustainable performance-based compensation systems (PBCSs)
Passing the CBEST is one way to satisfy the California Education Code basic skills requirement for obtaining a California teaching credential, required to teach in California public schools. [ 2 ] The CBEST format was implemented by the Oregon Teachers Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) in July 1984 to assess the basic skills of ...